- present participle of shirk.
shirking
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Employees monitor social-media posts to spot users’ latest methods for shirking their missions, said Jay Shin, chief executive of DelightRoom, the South Korean company behind Alarmy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
If letting Claude kill people on its own is not shirking oversight mechanisms, then we might reasonably question which “oversight mechanisms” Anthropic is talking about.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
After that is when the singer noticed that kindly dad shirking his duties in “Hot to Go!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025
I feel like in some ways, the notion of apocalypse is just about shirking our responsibility as humans to take charge of what's happening on this planet.
From Salon ● May 22, 2024
“Then I’ll have to do it myself, Father, if you insist on shirking your responsibilities.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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